This article focuses on identifying the increase of scientific publications on microcredit in the world of microfinance. The chronological limitation was established between the years 1996 to 2015 of the documents published in the Scopus database, using the key terms: “microcredit OR micro-finance OR micro-credit OR micro-credit OR micro-lend OR micro-lend OR micro-lend” the information was processed and analyzed in Excel (2015). Lotka’s bibliometric indicator was applied to establish the relevance of more productive authors and the map of collaboration density among authors was visualized from the network diagram in VOSviewer 1.6. The work established that scientific production in microcredit has grown rapidly since 1996. The year of highest productivity was 2013, with 340 published papers. The literary contribution was generated in 981 indexed journals that published papers on microcredit. The elite zone consisted of the 21 most influential authors in the field of microcredit. The author with the highest scientific output was Mersland Roy. Finally, the study provides the community with a perspective of visualization and the impact of scientific publications on microcredit

Bibliometric indicator, Microfinance, Scopus, Vosviewer